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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. NO 90., Sept. 19. '57. 



jury into a far greater crime than any violations of 

 the general laws of nature and humanity. The 

 touch of the swine he feels to be a direr outrage 

 than all he has inflicted even recently on his vic- 

 tims. No penances, prayers, or acts whatever, 

 are possible to avail against this contamination. 

 It is therefore more than excommunication. He 

 is barred, not only this earth, but his heaven for 

 ever. In that one act you have outraged his 

 hopes, his life, his happiness, and his domesticity. 

 He is so accursed, that even the handling of the 

 accursed thing, the swine-cartridge itself, can 

 make him no worse ; but he believes he devotes 

 you to the horrors he suffers by using it against 

 you in battle. These and the fiend-like barbari- 

 ties he resorts to can alone in the least alleviate, 

 never supersede, his endless circle of torment. 

 You have not only destroyed him in this world, 

 but the next, and so on through the infinite worlds 

 of his futurity. 



Well may Europe be slow to conceive a system 

 so gross, a code of morals and religion not merely 

 false, but so foul and factitious. This imaginary 

 wrong is greater than any and every positive 

 crime. Charge him then no more with pretexts 

 and inconsistencies when he uses the cartridge 

 that annihilates himself to heap eternal damnation 

 on his destroyers.* R. G. Potb. 



CHUECH BELLS AND CHUKCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS. 



In the tower of S. Mary's Church, Bildestone, 

 Suffolk, hang six bells, with these inscriptions : 



1. " Sancte Toma ora pro nobis." 



2. " Subveniat digna sonantibus haec Katerina." 

 4. " Miles Greye made me, 1683." 



6. "Thomas Farrow, Joseph Prokter, churchwardens, 

 1704." 



6. « Thomas Gardiner of Sudbury me fecit, 1718." 

 The third bell has neither inscription nor date, 

 but by a singular coincidence is the only one of 

 which other record has been preserved. The fol- 

 lowing extract is taken from a book of church- 

 wardens' accounts, which seems to show that our 

 ancestors of the seventeenth century had little 

 idea of ecclesiastical decoration beyond a clock and 

 bells ; for in addition to this sacrifice of brasses, 

 I find the charges for their repair forming a very 

 considerable part of the annual expenditure. 



" An Account for the casting and new shooting of the third 

 hell given in the last of March, 1624. 

 Imprimis, to Draper and Gurney for the bell shootiDg, 

 vli. xs. 8(i. 



* The message of the cakes and flower of unfortunate 

 Indian notoriety begins evidently in the middle, these 

 forming the second and third portions onlJ^ As previous 

 to the cakes themselves a similar sort of thing was expe- 

 dited through the same quarter, if the date or details can 

 be furnished by any of your correspondents, it will be at 

 once apparent whether Bramin as well as Chatriya was 

 concerned in the plot. 



And for the casting of the brasses and the new mettall 

 put to them being Ten, xxvs. 



For the carriage of the bell and bringing it home and 

 the charges with them that went to see for shott (?), 

 xxxs. 



To Joseph Chaplyn for three wheels for the bell and 

 hanging and taking downe of them, iiiZ/. vs. 



Robte Woode for twoe clappers and the iron worke be- 

 longing to the bell, iii/i. is. xid. 



Ffor carrj^eing the brasses and bringing of them, xiid. 



Suma total for the Bell, xivZi. xiiis. viitZ. 



Soe there remaine due for the bell to the church, iii/t. 

 iiis. Id." 



The following extract may also be of some in- 

 terest. The relief given to the sufferers in those 

 troubled times certainly cannot in any case be 

 called extravagant. 



"1645. 



Layd out for mending of the third bell whele to Ri- 

 chard Wood, Is. 



For a bassoim(?) for the church to John batman, 

 xxiis. 



For a frame for the bassoun (?) to lambard, Is. lid 



For a bedd and a blankit and bedsted for ould debnum, 

 8s. 



For a shurt for ould debnum, xs. 9cZ. 



And for good wiff hich in money, xrf. 



For a dore for the clock, 9rf. 



To 2 por widdowes which was in destres that cam out 

 of the weast cuntrey, Qd. 



To lambard for mending the lock of the chepell door, 

 M. 



For John hakins for half a load of wood, viis. vit/. 



For glasing the church windows, 12s. 



To Thomas paynter for keping the clock for mikelmas, 

 3s. 4c?. 



Gave of a pore gentelman that was plunderd of all that 

 he had which cam out of the weast cuntrey, viiid 



For a shirt and the making for ould debnam, iis. viiirf. 



Gave to 2 maynd soulders which cam out of the army, 

 \\d. 



Layd out to Thomas newton for half akave's (calf's.') 

 skinn for to mend the colers of the bells, ixd 



For a load of clay for mending the bridg, xiid. 



For 2 fagites for the bridg, vd. 



For a labourer for 1 dayes work for the brig, viif/. 



Gave to a poor woman of melford which lost all that 

 shee had by feyer, vie?. 



For a sheete to berey lifficus kimes wifF, iis. \\d. 



Gave to Thomas Fenerd and John Fuller, 2 mayned 

 soulders, vid. 



For a sheete to berey John Aldwig and for a faggit and 

 candle for him, iis. xid. 



Gave to a por man which was plunderd of all that he 

 had which cam out of norhamptonshere, virf. 



And to marey hambelltoii an eyrish woman which was 

 in distres, virf. 



And to an Eyrish man which was in great distress, 

 xiid. 



To Thomas paynter for keping the clock for Laddeyes 

 rent, iiis. inid. 



For nayles to mend the stokes, '\\d. 



Gave to Robard Wilkinsonn a hamsheyere man in his 

 distres, vid. 



To goodman hast for mending the brig, xviiis. \\d. 



Gave to a pore gentell woman which was in great want, 

 y'ld. 



To goodwiff girt in tyme of her leying in, xxd. 



To Thomas paynter for keping the clock for micklmas 

 rent, iiis. 4c?. 



